4th Book Of EZRA - ESDRAS Ch14

THE SEVENTH VISION

YAHWEH Commissions Ezra

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:1 And it came to pass upon the third day, I sat under an oak, and behold, there came a voice out of a bush opposite me, and said, Ezra, Ezra.

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:2 And I said, Here am I, YAHWEH And I stood up upon my feet. • Ex 3:4

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:3 Then said HE to me, In the bush I did manifestly reveal MYSELF to Mosheh, and talked with him, when MY people were in bondage in Egypt:

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:4 And I sent him and led MY people out of Egypt, and led him up upon Mount Sinai of where I kept him by ME many days,

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:5 And told him many wondrous things, and shown him the secrets of the times, and declared to him the end of the times. Then I commanded him, saying,

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:6 These words shall you declare, and these shall you hide.

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:7 And now I say to you,

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:8 That you lay up in your heart the signs that I have shown, and the dreams that you have seen, and the interpretations which you have heard:

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:9 For you shall be taken away from all, and from henceforth you shall remain with MY Son, and with those such as be like you, until the times are ended.

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:10 For the world has lost its youthfulness, and the times begin to wax old.

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:11 For the age of the world is divided into twelve parts, and nine parts of it have already passed, and half of the tenth part:

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:12 So that two of its parts remain, that which is after the half part of the tenth.

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:13 Now therefore set your house in order, and reprove your people, comfort the lowly among them, and instruct those that are wise.

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:14 And now renounce corruption, and put away from you mortal thoughts, cast away the burdens of man, put off now the weak nature,

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:15 And lay aside the thoughts that are most heavy and grievous to you, and hasten to flee from these times. • 2Cor 5:4

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:16 For yet greater evils than those which you have seen happen shall be done hereafter.

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:17 For the weaker the world becomes through old age, the more shall evils be multiplied among its inhabitants.

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:18 For truth shall go farther away, and falsehood shall come near. For the eagle which you saw in the vision is hastening to come.

Ezra's Prayer For Inspiration To Restore The Scriptures

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:19 Then I answered and said, Let me speak in your presence, YAHWEH,

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:20 Behold, YAHWEH, I will go, as YOU have commanded me, and reprove the people which are present: but they that shall be born afterward, who shall admonish them? Thus the world is set in darkness, and they that dwell therein are without light.

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:21 For YOUR Torah is burnt, therefore no man knows the things that are done of YOU, or the work that shall begin.

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:22 But if I have found free unmerited favor before YOU, send the Ruach HaKodesh into me, and I shall write all that has been done in the world since the beginning, which were written in YOUR Torah, that men may find YOUR path, and that they which will live in the latter days may live.

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:23 And HE answered me, saying, Go your way, gather the people together, and say to them, that they seek you not for forty days.

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:24 But look and prepare you many writing tablets, and take with you Sarea, Dabria, Selemia, Ethanus, and Asiel, these five, because they are ready to write swiftly; • Ex 24:18; Ex 34:28

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:25 And come hither, and I shall light a menorah of understanding in your heart, which shall not be put out until the writings and purpose be performed.

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:26 And when you have done, some writings shall you publish, and some writings you shall deliver in secret to the wise: tomorrow at this hour shall you begin to write.

Ezra's Address To The People

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:27 Then I went forth as HE commanded me, and gathered all the people together, and said,

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:28 Hear these words, Oh Yisrael.

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:29 Our fathers in the beginning were strangers in Egypt, from there they were delivered:

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:30 And received the Torah of Life, which they did not keep, which you also have transgressed after them.

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:31 Then was the land, even the land of Zion, parted among you by lot for a possession: but you and your fathers committed iniquity and unrighteousness, and have not kept the ways which the Most High YAHWEH commanded you.

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:32 And because HE is a righteous judge, in due time HE took from you what HE had given you.

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:33 And now are you here, and your brethren are farther in the interior.

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:34 If you, then will rule over your minds and subdue your own understanding, and discipline your hearts, you shall be kept alive and after death you shall obtain mercy.

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:35 For after death shall the judgment come, when we shall live again: and then the names of the righteous shall become manifest, and the deeds of the wicked shall be declared.

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:36 Let no man therefore come to me now, nor seek me for forty days.

Ezra's Experience In The Field

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:37 So I took the five men, as HE commanded me, and we went into the field, and remained there.

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:38 And the next day, behold, a voice called me, saying, Ezra, open your mouth, and drink that I give you to drink.

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:39 Then opened I my mouth, and, behold, HE reached me a full cup, which was full as it were with water, but the color of it was like fire.

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:40 And I took it and drank; and when I had drunk it, my heart poured forth understanding, and wisdom increased in my breast, for my ruach strengthened and retained my memory:

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:41 And my mouth was opened, and shut no more.

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:42 And the Most High YAHWEH gave understanding to the five men, and by turns they wrote the wonderful visions of the night that were dictated, which they knew not: and they sat forty days, and they wrote in the day, and at night they ate bread.

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:43 As for me. I spoke in the day, and I held not my tongue by night.

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:44 In forty days they wrote ninety-four books.

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:45 And it came to pass, when the forty days were completed, that the Most High YAHWEH spoke to me, saying, The first twenty-four books that you have written publish openly, that the worthy and unworthy may read them:

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:46 But keep the seventy last, that you may deliver them only to such as be wise among the people:

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:47 For in them is the wellspring of understanding, the fountain of wisdom, and the river of knowledge.

EZRA -4- ESDRAS 14:48 And I did so.

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